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egypt faces more opposition protests and a boycott of the draft constitution just spite the president giving up his recently extended powers at the e.u. was set to receive the nobel peace prize and made it past protests and speculation over the award having lost all credibility. and the opposition in bahrain pledge talks without preconditions amid the season's crackdown and display of dissent. thanks for joining me this morning i'm lucy catherine of and you're watching our team well the opposition in egypt is gearing up for more protests and says that it
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will boycott a referendum on the draft constitution and president morsi has already given up his sweeping powers but fail to appease his opponents as he maintains the poll and the new charter will proceed next weekend journalist bill true is in cairo with more details but national salvation front which is the coalition of opposition forces how the press conferences they express their complete rejection of the referendum of the constitution which they say in force is dictatorial tendencies and the collective he economic insurgent groups that call for more protests on choose to against a set of documents and said that basically they will most stand down how this will be responded to by the president is yet to be seen in all of the speeches by the president and over the statements he's made is firmly back the referendum on the street speaking to the protesters behind me as you can see it got in front of the presidential palace they believe his initial confusion that gratian which awarded him sweeping powers they said to me this evening was really to ensure that the constitution was drafted. put to referendum so the president's main aim really is
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they say to have this constitution place in place how he reacts to that to the boycott by they opposition forces i guess in it whether or not it's a huge boycotts nationwide or whether it is not large enough to make an impact behind me there are republican guards have had a tank stationed outside the presidential palace they've also built a twelve foot concrete barricades however the protesters on friday in quite extraordinary scenes essentially overwhelm the republican guards and push through in front of the presidential gates where they are now people on the streets of the republican guard essentially stepped aside and so many even leading many to believe the military perhaps not backing morsi to the same to the extent that he is saying they are he has called for them secure the streets there are fears that violence will escalate this point is the bloody scenes on wednesday when rival groups clashed here just at the presidential palace between pro brotherhood pre-presidential supporters and protest is leaving at least seven dead at the
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national salvation front themselves in this press conference said that this referendum will really just simply increase division in the country and possibly to further violence as these protest groups maintain their positions so definitely that military may well we may see more tanks on the streets here in egypt as this is the crisis deepens. analysts to william engdahl thinks the egyptian is the master being backed by foreign patrons who have their own agenda you have the brotherhood which is being supported by the state department in the obama administration. as a. vehicle to create if you will an islamic dictatorship in egypt but they're pushing. the secretive gender much much like. a sunni organization. where the trial. they're pushing an agenda on the occupation and the population right now and i think this is the coptic christian. groups are threatened if the book brotherhood gets its
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constitution and imposing sharia law. other groups of muslims for example should be their places of worship are under attack in egypt and likely will be increasing so this is probably one of the most major. intelligence projects of the over the last fifty years and since the us government support of the muslim brotherhood to create islamic fascist regime if you want to use that term across the islamic world across the muslim world from afghanistan down through turkey into saudi arabia qatar and of course egypt the opinion of william angle there but one of morsi is a former rivals for the presidency omar more so is now a prominent opposition leader that he says that the nation has to move forward here's a little preview of the full interview which will air for you at six thirty pm g.m.t. . the situation in egypt generally stands because
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of the fact that nothing has really changed the change that that people hoped for dealing with. the services the education and the rest of the tides of dating to be life or you. know to be produced and i think you know you have to move on that is the essence of the message of message today move on but i suspect the book is a respect the rule of law let us move together. three presidents of the european union's main body is our duty the noble peace prize and a grand ceremony and also but even before that prize was handed out hundreds had marched to the center of the norwegian capital in protest this came on the heels of several previous winners issuing an open letter to the noble foundation claiming that the e.u. doesn't deserve the award but i. peter over found out these aren't the only issues
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on the mining credibility of the prize. mark. one day eleven they will not be judged. by the content of their character. the one that can be probably would have to become a laureate to be home to be assassinated however the nobel peace prize is only awarded to a living person and this is when it tastes trying to especially when it comes to finances the announcement the european union was to pick up the twenty twelve gong sparked a heated debate the award was being discredited particularly after the outrage it was picked it up recently to be frank inside the united states i don't think very many people pay attention to the nobel peace prize anymore large numbers of americans were stunned when yasser arafat received the nobel peace prize many years
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ago president obama was given a prize for reasons that no one understood. the done over the last twelve months to convince the nobel committee it's with the of such a prestigious award. it supported regime change in foreign countries and several member states indulged in violent crackdowns on demonstrate is outraged by the failure of the government's. skeptics can't get enough to get devalues the whole concept of the peace prize when you find out that the chap in charge of the committee is actually a fully paid up bureaucrat paid a big salary and promised a big pension by the council of europe you begin to think what's going on here among more moderate voices there are concerns the peace prize is being used as a political football i think this award basically does a lot to kind of discredit past people who've won this prize i mean it and demonstrate. it's
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a sort of heavy politicization of the use of this award it's been suggested that this year's winner of the peace prize picked it up more for not having done something as opposed to having food the peace around the globe it seems like they got the prize more because there hasn't been any war in europe for many decades rather than having done anything specific i think as long as civic institutions like the nobel prize continue to lose their legitimacy and their spirit through political favor to these prices are always political but such blatant and obvious political favoritism and maneuvering i think it actually takes something away and i think it's actually damaging leaves the whole institution of the prize facing the question of whether the nobility is being drained from the new. r t. well greece's prime minister and his visitor to bavaria in an attempt to restore some faith in athens his trip to the wealthy german region came after greece sudden
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motion a complex financial operation to buy back some of the country's debt reduce prices the goal is to cut the national debt by around twenty billion euros to qualify for more financial aid from the european union and the international monetary fund samaras says visit comes less than two weeks after greece's creditors agreed to extend to billions in additional financing george catalysts an attorney and constitutional lawyer believes the way to the e.u. believes the way that the e.u. chose to deal with a crisis is unsustainable. but unfortunately. there's. a huge. if you do so such
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a lucid. german taxpayers show. you this simple you see this your usual more of more stuff in for people with glee i will go to. and the euro crisis is also a hot topic at r.t. dot com as we report on the thousands of spanish medical workers who are marching through my dread and protests against cut to health care as well as plans to sell off public hospitals with. more news today violence is once again flared up. again these are the images those world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations are old today.
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aside. bahraini opposition groups say they're ready for open dialogue with a government without any preconditions but they also want anywhere's olds to be put to a referendum now all this comes after a recent peal for face to face talks and by the monarchy which said that they were essential in order to quell the daily unrest there like his reports it's still in doubt whether the turbulent gulf state as any closer to getting on the road to peace. sadiq says his life was shattered his sits on
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a municipal council in bahrain and several months ago he was shot by police during a peaceful protest looking at his injuries his lucky to be alive but of an online war and i was with many of the protesters when we were faced by riot police and they did not hesitate to shoot us directly to the head with the bullets the police are using are for hunting birds and animals i've been shot at over one hundred ninety two hell it's scattered all over my body in the head face arms and legs the most dangerous ones are those inside my lungs. is just one of hundreds who have suffered in the anti-government protests that started around twenty months ago when revolution fever was sweeping the middle east and north africa the descent in bahrain differs little from that in a nation swept by the arab spring. but the story about a stop it is a delete in different areas against the regime against that because the church of
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against the situation. one thousand five hundred has another we have. every day we have a lot of. security forces surrounding the area attacking the people at that house and given the outcome of the arab spring and he will spur rains ruling elite is doing its best to stamp out revolt the government recently slapped a ban on public gatherings bahrain's chief of police says it's not permanent but it is necessary we have introduced a temporary restriction on gatherings and protests and that is. one reason because lately we have seen that these gatherings and protests have been taking more violent. methods in one year we had over four hundred protests in bahrain that's more than one protest but big and we have tried to solve the problem however they didn't seem to be able to control protests and the gatherings despite the ban
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and the risk of arrest people are still gathering the hard core of the protest comes from poor neighborhoods as soon as we reached one remediate he encountered a smooth and peaceful anti-government so roundly. some a simple salute to estimate how many people actually taking part there just a moment in bettering the fact is that these protesters are being supported by the local she community which make up to seventy percent of this country's population. the ruling elite are sunni muslims and this may look like a sectarian war but the authorities firmly reject their actions are religiously motivated there is a radical movement in the opposition party they are hardliners they want to see regime change they want to implement their own style of government they seek a secretary in theocracy and that is unacceptable. because i feel out of desperation they know that they don't have the support of the rest of the
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population of bahrain they have turned to these violent means the protests are gathering momentum and allegations of torture in prisons are leading to serious international pressure being put on. so bahrain's rulers find themselves in a tough position they want dialogue with dissenters but the question is whether they will be satisfied with what the king has to offer a legacy or shift key r.t. reporting from the kingdom of bahrain. the militant group hamas will not give up an inch of palestinian territories that is according to the organization's political leader khaled mashal who is speaking. on his last day of the historic trip to gaza he also slammed israel for the occupation of the palestinian lands and refused to recognize the country's legitimacy israel responded saying they would never unilaterally withdraw from the west bank saying that it would undermine its security in the country has criticized the recent u.n. vote upgrading the diplomatic status of palestinians and
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a vow to keep on building new settlements which are considered to be illegal under international law journalist gideon levy says a situation of won't change as long as the u.s. continues to back israel. these really probably could be in it doesn't seem to be. very troubled by the un resolution and by the fact that these are little saw isolated their. government is known as the united states school to support and to be accused. this be. the when they lost the vote to the u.n. but still refuse if you will be supporting basically supporting israel. and staying in the middle east to moscow says it believes the biggest threat to syria is chemical weapons falling into the hands of militants this comes after a video appeared last week of an alleged rebel fighter threatening assad loyalists with chemical weapons the source of that video is unconfirmed meanwhile activists
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say forty five people were killed in the country on sunday with the battles raging in the capital damascus as well as in aleppo rebel groups are also united under one of military command in the latest western backed effort to topple the assad regime political activist abdullah thinks rebel militias could stage a chemical attack to discredit the government and pave the way for military intervention. the danger is that the west is aware of such materials in syria but at the same time it's going to be used against the syrian government as a pretext for intervention united states has recently. started listing us of the syrian on the opposition all of the armed opposition in syria as terrorists organizations that say something that is probably aware that part of the of the armed opposition in syria and probably they seem most powerful of the position of the nasr front and probably are possession of says such materials and probably are
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planning to use them. well north korea is expected to launch a rocket that it claims is carrying a scientific satellite later this month and that is according to a report in a south korean newspaper concerns of a possible delay appeared because of problems with a third stage rocket and you component is being moved to the test sites to replace the faulty hard launch has been condemned by the south as well as japan and the united states they believe that it is a disguised test of a long range missile being developed to carry nuclear weapons. dozens of u.s. national security professionals have published a report suggesting that america should ease sanctions on a wrong apart from independent experts the paper was also signed by a number of foreign us policy makers and military generals the latest round of economic sanctions against iran was implemented less than two weeks ago washington has and its allies impose restrictions in an attempt to curb iran's nuclear program
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which tehran maintains is peaceful. a five point six magnitude earthquake has hit the southern philippines and there were no immediate reports of casualties following the tremors this comes just days after the country was devastated by a deadly typhoon that storm had claimed the lives of more than six hundred people and left nearly four hundred thousand homeless almost a thousand are still missing. well the united nations says south sudan's army has killed ten protesters during demonstrations against the relocation of the local council headquarters the u.n. spokesperson said it wasn't clear if any people in the crowd were armed or if the army had been provoked south sudan declared independence from its northern neighbor last year ending decades of civil war. will is the e.u. pursuing the goal of a united europe at the expense of individual nations the issue takes center stage in the latest round of peter lavelle's cross-talk coming up in just over an hour.
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before the european union has to be burdened subsidy or its principal. which means that the decisions are made close as possible to the citizens on the other hand the only is an indication is that the case on truth is that the case let me finish or i go ahead yeah yeah of course but about dontcha think that. in a case that a federal union existed with a federal strong budget that the sovereignty of the european citizens overall would be better than we have now in that crisis we are all victims at the moment because we do not have a fully fledged clearly question is did people join to create something like the united states yeah i mean they are going to join it to create a united states of europe. that it has to be discussed i'm sorry i was saying yes there is no alternative to that and if they don't want to be. bound to a federal union or european union or state of the united states of europe they can
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of course leave or negotiate the treaties. they have some use for you beijing has warned india against pursuing well exploration in the disputed resource rich south china sea it comes in reaction to this week's statement by india's navy chief who announced that his country could go as far as sending warships to the area to protect its economic interests yet our personnel the investigate at the plant claims. as journeymen india rise economically their military muscles are growing as world both need energy to keep that kind of growth going and that may be putting the two asian giants on a collision course because of the mess that nationalism the indian government cannot afford to be seem to be weak in dealing with. obviously. with government. over two hundred billion barrels of oil and large amounts of natural gas that's more than the vast majority of the world's energy rich nations
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have all hidden under the south china sea china claims most of the territory for itself but india has also managed to get access by buying a stake in a vietnamese gas field shortly after hanoi accused chinese boss of sandwich dodging exploration india warned it's really to use force to defend its interests. in the. longer term conflict but. it's inevitable because these countries now large ambitions of becoming global actors and players both china and india have been pumping billions of u.s. dollars into their armies and navies holding drools on a regular basis and. beijing has also announced its police will see in store to board and inspect form vessels surely the vast oil reserves in the south china sea are just too big of a cash for neither china or india to pass up because i really want a conflict between the two economic power houses says it may be
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a game that neither can win the two asian giants can't afford any weaknesses that would make it easier for other countries to take a bite of the vast resources the u.s. has long been increasing its economic and military presence in the region this is their west strain to take this extension buy gold in the china in terms of the glass. slipper bowls down the glass saying that the wall is a military clash so if the two eastern powerhouses can share nicely that catch me they will go to some other players already prowling on the sidelines you got this going on with our team. americans across the us have gone on line to say that they want their region to be independent from washington parties morea part i.i. trying to find out why some u.s. nationals are eager to rip the stars and stripes apart. tonight. with more to wonder here is that for
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a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny. the test of perfecting of our european moves forward was four weeks following barack obama's reelection nearly one million americans have moved forward by campaigning to break apart all fifty states have filed online petitions with the white house requesting to peacefully secede from this so-called perfecting union a movement that's garnered more than thirty thousand signatures in north carolina where many like michael toggled. see independence as a symbol may twentieth a consistent one is the day that north carolina sated from the union and america's stars and stripes ripping at the seams there's no doubt in my mind that it is inevitable i mean something like this with the debt this country has with the growing disunion among in the among the people they can't last forever and that's
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through the lesson of history big empires always collapse under their own weight secession supporters like bernard first some say washington's weight of growing debt and loose wars government intrusion and a broken immigration system has become a bipartisan destructive force is beyond reform you can't reform that federal government whether it's the republicans in charge or obama basically the republicans are just as bad as far as we're concerned there are they are corrupt and are out of touch in southern former confederate states like north carolina culture and social issues play a big role for those like harold cruz who believes the u.s. is too big and thus destined to fail and the south. are different country already and the united states. government we have different values different belief systems critics have dismissed secessionists as disgruntled voters angry over president obama's second term however in the two thousand and
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eight presidential election obama became the first democrat in more than thirty years to win north carolina a red state turned blue with the promise of change four years later tens of thousands of voters in the very same state believe they'd be better off on their own. the average american the things they believe in they're tired of the endless wars and here we are talking about invading iran now i can't think of anything more the white house meanwhile promises to review and issue an official response to all petitions with twenty five thousand or more. signatories at least seven states fit that category the way used to be on the interstate driving along at thirty five miles an hour by or cells with the session as a goal and now we're being passed on both sides and lanes by people going faster than we are and it's amazing because here we were thought to be radical fifteen or ten years ago and now we're mainstream. a mainstream movement to move apart marina
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